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Table of Contents of Volume II

The Secret Doctrine - by H.P. Blavatsky

Introduction

FIRST VOLUME - Cosmogenesis.

Book I. Part I. - Cosmic Evolution.Book I. Part II. - Evolution of Symbolism In Its Approximate Order.Book I. Part III. - Science and the Secret Doctrine contrasted.

SECOND VOLUME - AnthropogenesisPreliminary Notes.

Book II. Part I. - AnthropogenesisBook II. Part II.; - The Archaic Symbolism of the World-religions.Book II. Part III. - Addenda: Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted.

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SECOND VOLUME

ANTHROPOGENESIS

vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

xvi.

PRELIMINARY NOTES PAGE

On the Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Prehistoric ContinentsThe Imperishable Sacred Land The Hyperborean Lemuria AtlantisThe Tropics at the Pole

1 6 7 7 8 11

BOOK II. - PART I.

ANTHROPOGENESIS

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STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN

15

STANZA I.- BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE

22

Man, the Third Logos The Celestial Governors of Humanity Parent Stars and Sister Planets Three Kinds of Light The Numbers of CreationThe First War in Heaven

25 29 33 35 39 45

TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS

47

STANZA II.- NATURE UNAIDED FAILS

52

The Monsters of ChaosThe "Double Dragon" Who are the Flames?

53 57 63

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS

66

The Race that never dies Cosmogony, an intelligent plan

67

73

STANZA III.- ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN

75

The various classes of Creators Man, a god in animal form "Fires," "Sparks," and "Flames"

77 81 83

STANZA IV.- CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES

86

Pitris of the Gods and DemonsWhat Prometheus symbolizedThe Hammer of Thor The Divine Rebels Man's Father, the Sun

89 95 99103105

STANZA V.- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE

109

The Secret Work of Chiram The outgrowth of Races Leda, Castor, and Pollux Jah-Hovah Androgynous The Jewish God-name

111117121125127

STANZA VI.- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN

131

Bi-sexual reproduction The Virgin Third Race A Few Words about Deluges and Noah's Various Deluges The Arkite Symbols Could Men Exist 18,000,000 Years ago?Spontaneous Generation The Solar System in the Puranas Oceans of Carbonic Acid?

133135138141143 148151155

159

STANZA VII.- FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES

161

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Monads and Rounds A Suggestive ExplanationA Saint-Hypnotised Sweat-born and Androgynes

167 171175177

STANZA VIII.- EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS - THE FIRST

180

Archaic Zoology The Sin of the Mindless Men

182 183

WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING

185

STANZA IX.- THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN

191

The Hairy Men of China The Separation of SexesPrimeval Language

195197199

EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS

202

The Garden of Eden a College Flying CamelsTwo Schools of Magic The Flying Dragons

203205211219

THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND

220

The Magicians of Atlantis

223

STANZA X.- THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE

227

The Mysteries among the MayasSatanic Myths Mahasura and Satan Man, the pale shadow of GodThe curse of Vasishta

229233237243247

ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS

251

From worm to man Identity of Human and Animal embryos

255259

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES

263

The Natural "Fall" The Symbolism of Kronos

267269

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STANZA X.- CONTINUED

271

The Golden Age The Devil's outside Humanity

273275

ARE GIANTS A FICTION?

277

The Seven Virgin YouthsThe Tibetan Lilith The Races of Men not all Human

281285287

THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE"

289

Occult PhysiologyThe Evolution of the EveThe Third Eye is now a Gland

295299301

THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY

307

The Four Earlier RacesThe Esoteric Meaning of "Fish"

311313

STANZA XI.- THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES

The Astronomical Dragon Serpents and Dragons under different Symbolisms The Sidereal and Cosmic Glyphs Our Divine Instructors The Origin of the Satanic MythNoah was a Kabir, hence he must have been a Demon The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar and the Submerge Continents Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions The "Curse" from a Philosophical point of view

353355357365 378390393401409

ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII.

423

The Oldest Records about AtlantisThe Doom of Atlantis The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races

425427434

CONCLUSION

437

BOOK II. - PART II.

THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS

ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE

449

XVI. ADAM-ADAMI

452

The Cabalistic Four Adams

457

XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION

459

Christian Symbolism The "Four-faced" Brahm The Old and the New Jehovah

463465 469

XVII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS

475

The Evil Spirit: Who and What? The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness The many meanings of the "War in Heaven"

475483492

XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR?

506

Jehovah's Personating Spirit The Mysterium Magnum The Logos and Satan are One

509512515

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XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN

519

His Origin in Ancient India The Boon he Gives

519523

XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH

529

XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVAH

536

Cross and Circle The Fall of the Cross into Matter

545553

XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE

563

When Time be no longer The Divine Self's Wisdom

565566

XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE

573

Poseidon's Five Ministers The Mystery of the Number Six The Cross and Christian After-thought

577583587

XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD

590

Saptaparna The Tetraktis in relation to the Heptagon The Septenary Element in the Vedas The Septenary in the Exoteric Works Seven in Astronomy, Science and Magic The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists

590598605611618630

BOOK II. -PART III.

ADDENDA

SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED

I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY?

645

The Occult and the Modern DoctrinesScience is Silent on every Problem

649653

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II.THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE

656

Various Modes of Reproduction A Pithecoid Man Wanted Plastidular Souls and Conscious Nerve-Cells The atoms of our "Father-Bathybius"

659669670674

III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE

675

Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians The Argument of "Rudimentary Organs""Epitomized History in the Foetus The Evidence of Skulls

677683684687

IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN

690

Sayce's Sketch of Chronology (a) Speculations on the Age of the Globe The Adept-Astronomer (b) On Chains of Planets and their Plurality States of Consciousness Worlds mentioned in the Bible (c) Esoteric Geological ChronologyParallelism of LifeThe Two Sciences contrasted The Paleolithic Landseer Astral Man - the SolutionThe Kabalists and Science

691694698699701703709 711713721728730

V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES

731

Dhyan Chohans and these Centres (a) Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia (b) The European Paleolithic Races - whence ad how distributed

732734738

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VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY

742

A Mysterious NationThe Seven Sabbaths "Revelation" and the "Secret Doctrine"Druidic Stones Races of Giants Mazdean "Seven Earths" (a) Statements about the Sacred Islands The Heirloom of Atlantis The God-bearing LandThe Power of Names The Sons of Coelus and Terra Southern and Northern Atlantis Niobe and her Children The Cycles of Time The Titans in Prison

743747 748752755759760763 765767769770771773776

VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS

778

Corroborations of Occultism by GeologyEvidence of the FloraAtlantis necessary to Ethnology Astraea falls on her Head Communication between South-Sea Islands Evidence of Language Ragon explains Masonic Symbols